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The canonization of Joan of Arc in 1920, hailed as a spiritual triumph by the Catholic Church, was in reality a meticulously orchestrated political operation. This endeavor, driven by an unlikely alliance between the French Catholic clergy, the monarchist far-right, and the republican regime, crafted an artificial myth that was, awkwardly enough, quickly abandoned. Its purpose? To unify the French masses around an exacerbated nationalism, directed against Germany in the tense context of the pre- and post-World War I era. A Fractured France and a "Threatening" Germany The canonization of Joan of Arc occurred at a pivotal moment in French…
